{"id":65403,"date":"2026-01-30T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=65403"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:04:17","slug":"pasta-mander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/pasta-mander\/","title":{"rendered":"With Mouth-Watering Dishes, Senior Is Already a Culinary Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Boasting more than 100K Instagram followers, Maximo Mander \u201926 is mining his Italian roots with a pop-up pasta restaurant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Melissa Newcomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Maximo Mander \u201926 grew up spending summers in Italy, where his grandparents are from, and the rest of the year in his home city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. By the time he was a teenager, he\u2019d also visited many other countries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn each culture, one of the most important aspects is the way of offering hospitality,\u201d observes Mander, who\u2019s in his final semester as a Hotelie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u201cIn Italy, the waiters are charismatic\u2014and that\u2019s when I realized I loved the theater of dining.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mander also loved the counter-service pasta offered throughout the country, where it\u2019s prepared freshly and quickly, tossed into a container, and either eaten in or taken on the go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He brought that concept to his pop-up eatery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/prontipasta\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pronti Pasta<\/a>, which specializes in events at established restaurants or bars that are 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kitchen.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the pasta is fresh and hand-cut, topped with scratch-made sauces like pomodoro, pesto, rag\u00f9 (a meat-based red sauce), and truffle\u2014plus tiramis\u00f9 for dessert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPasta is the food I like to eat the most; it\u2019s simple, delicious, and unpretentious,\u201d Mander says. \u201cYou make it with just a few ingredients, it\u2019s healthy, and you can eat it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Pasta is the food I like to eat the most; it\u2019s simple, delicious, and unpretentious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mander\u2019s interest in food stretches back to his youth; he even took a pastry-making course with his mom\u2014who\u2019s a chocolatier\u2014when they were living in Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He came to the Hill after spending a semester at a high-end culinary school in Paris, an experience that convinced him he\u2019s actually more interested in the entrepreneurial side of restaurants than in hands-on cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"65400\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_4867-A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Four to-go bowls of rigatoni pasta with varying sauces, including bolognese and pesto, on them.\" class=\"wp-image-65400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_4867-A-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_4867-A-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_4867-A-768x960.jpg 768w, 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Mexican restaurant in Collegetown in March 2025.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mander has gone on to host events in NYC and in Miami, where his family relocated when he was 17; he plans to live there after graduation and run Pronti full time (and eventually, hire a chef so he can focus on the business side).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHopefully I\u2019ll be able to turn it into something similar to a Shake Shack for pasta,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s my dream life, at least; achieving it is a different scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_7402-A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Pudding desserts in coupe glasses stacked into a tower sitting on an apartment kitchen counter.\" class=\"wp-image-65402 size-full\" 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Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It features not only mouth-watering savories like steak, pizza, risotto, and beef Wellington, but baked goods including tarts, croissants, and picture-perfect macarons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Insta also showcases the elaborate dinners he hosts at his apartment for his fellow Cornellians and other guests\u2014creating indulgent dishes like beef short ribs and spaghetti with lobster, but most of all savoring their company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving dinner is about more than the food,\u201d Mander says. \u201cIt\u2019s about the moment that\u2019s created with good people having a fun time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: Mander in a campus kitchen. 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